Two truths and a lie.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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The second one sounds most like the kind of thing a typical person would make up, so I’ll guess that’s your lie.

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There’s nothing to guess at, so I’ll just post mine:

  1. I adopted a cat that was featured in a local NSPCA ad
  2. I once tried out for an improv comedy troupe
  3. I asked a boy to the prom
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Don’t want this thread to fade away…it looks like just too much fun (and some of them are still unanswered).

Here’s mine. Couldn’t decide which one was the best, so I’m putting 'em all up. Answers and explanations provided by request, of course.

A. [And I thought high school was rough]

  1. I graduated from college over 9 years after enrolling, and I was nearly expelled twice.
  2. I took Drafting for one semester despite having no interest whatsoever in the subject, solely because my dad does it and he said it would be good for me.
  3. I decided to complete my 4-year degree instead of heading into the workplace with two lousy 2-year degrees after my mom yelled at me on the phone on the very last day of registration.

B. [Anime and stupid Western culture]

  1. I think that Dic made entirely the right decision to make numerous changes to Sailor Moon for network television.
  2. I think that Tokyopop made entirely the right decision to give nearly all the characters in the early volumes nicknames.
  3. I think that Bandai made entirely the right decision to put The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya in chronological order for the American DVD release.

C. [Travels in my younger days]

  1. I have visited every neighbor island except for Kahoolawe.
  2. I have visitied Yosemite National Park, Las Vegas, Washington DC, San Francisco, Hong Kong, and parts of China.
  3. I have gone to Disney World 3 times and Disneyland at least 5 times

D. [SDMB NFL statements gone horribly wrong]

  1. I predicted the outright winner, winner against the spread, and over/under of Super Bowl 36 in an SDMB thread and was wrong for all three.
  2. I once said “You’re the Chiefs fan, right?” to pepperlandgirl (a huge Broncos fan).
  3. I’ve made exactly one SDMB post about Michael Vick…saying that he’d only grow more phenomenal with time and that nothing could derail his career.

E. [My lifelong albatross]

  1. I’ve bought a cartridge Neo Geo and a Neo CD.
  2. I’ve bought three different Sega consoles.
  3. I’ve bought three PS2’s, one of them an import.

F. [Medical close calls]

  1. I nearly got a broken arm from falling off of my bicycle.
  2. I came within two inches of losing my left eye.
  3. I had a fish bone stuck in my throat that it took hours (with various surgical tools) to get out.

G. [Lemme explain…]

  1. I joined the Boy Scouts because my piano teacher just couldn’t live the lie anymore.
  2. I developed a taste for tea because I was too damn stubborn to take sick leave.
  3. I stopped using the NordicTrack because Jasmine Trias taught me what really mattered.
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Hrmm. These are all eminently believable, especially since you’re from New England. I’ll say #1 is the lie.

Three more for me, with a special new High School theme.

  1. I voted for a boy for prom queen.
  2. I kissed another boy in my class for $5, and to raucous laughter and applause to boot.
  3. I came to school in women’s clothes one day, and got a number of compliments.

Wow! thanks for your dedication to keeping my thread alive! :cool: Because I want to hear the explanations, I’ll say #1 is the lie.

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Ok, I’ll take a shot at this one. My guess is #1. The second is all too believable. (I went out for football as a know-nothing freshman because my dad had been a star player in his day - though, to his credit, he never even brought the subject up. I was lousy, played a total of perhaps one minute of game time all year. Didn’t return as a sophomore) And #3 has that telling “last day of registration” detail
As for my own –

  1. I have a photo of myself interviewing this guy

  2. I have a photo of myself with Gary (Laugh-in) Owens

  3. I have a photo of myself with Dick Clark

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Hometownboy, I’m guessing you’ve never been photographed with Dick Clark.

  1. I once got a concussion at a ballet studio.
  2. I’ve had a rabies shot.
  3. I’ve modeled nude for an artist.
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Since #1 sounds too specific to be a lie and #3 is pretty common, I’ll go with #2.

Anyone wanna hazard a guess on mine?

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Right you are. I did have drinks and conversation with Gary Owens for about 20 minutes in a hospitality suite during the National Association of Broadcasters Convention in 1981, but no picture. He was very gracious to talk about voiceover work and what Paul Frees was really like.

I did go through the line to get my picture with Mr. Clark.

And I interviewed the first guy during coverage of a total eclipse of the sun covered by the networks at a small observatory in Goldendale, Washington that sat smack in the path of the totality. This was in 1979.

Thanks, moonstarsun for taking a swing at it.

In return, I notice two of your three items were from the world of art and suspect that you haven’t got a rabies shot.

And, fetus, I have no doubt that you’re smashing in women’s clothes, and I suspect that you would have voted for yourself for prom queen instead. I think the first choice is your fakeout.

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Hometownboy, I was actually guessing moonstarssun’s. All of yours were too specific for me to hazard a guess. :smiley:

As for mine:

  1. I did indeed vote for a boy (who wasn’t me) for prom queen. He wasn’t in drag and he wasn’t gay, he was just enough of a badass that he won it on a strong write-in campaign. I went to a very tolerant school, in case you can’t tell.

  2. I was the guy who ponied up the $5. This was in our freshman year, but the guy who planted the kiss was the same dude who ended up being prom queen four years later, so I like to think that it all started with my $5 bill. :smiley: It was a surprise attack, but thankfully the victim realized it was pretty funny.

  3. Did your high school have Spirit Week? Mine did too, but there was one subtle difference: one of the events was Cross-Dressing Day. After my smashing success in a pink skirt and a pink blouse, I considered coming to 80s Day as a cokehead wearing a blow-up doll below my belt, but decided against it (mostly because of the difficulty in assembling the costume quickly, I must admit).

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Little late…but here are mine…

1.I once drove a VW Bug through the front door of a 7/11.

2.I was questioned at the Canadian border as to why I had a suit case full of womens underwear.

3.I have been shot in the head with a muzzleloading .45 caliber pistol and in the leg with a bow and arrow.

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#2 is correct–you guys is smart.

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I’ll throw another three in the ring…

  1. I’ve been quoted in a book.
  2. I’ve been quoted in a newspaper with a circulation of almost 300,000.
  3. I’ve been quoted in a magazine with a circulation of almost 800,000.
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Good guess, Fetus! I’m not a cat person, but I have tried out for an improv group and the boy and I had a nice time at the prom :slight_smile:

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I wasn’t planning on taking a stab at any of these, but a few of them are just too juicy to leave unresolved. (DAMN, I love this board. :slight_smile: ) Sometime tomorrow.

I’m a bit flattered that I got guesses for two of mine so quickly. Unfortunately, I also get the impression that I should either post more often or update my website faster, as they were both wrong.

G. #3 is the lie. I started using the NordicTrack again because I’d been unemployed for some time, had the time, and thought, what the heck, why not work off a few pounds. American Idol, a program I comment on frequently here, was on at the time, so I decided to time my workouts with that program. I stopped using the machine because, well, I got a job and didn’t have the free time anymore, plus it’s boring as hell doing the same two motions over and over. It had absolutely nothing to do with Jasmine Trias.

#1 is a bit tricky; I’d been taking piano lessons for many years despite absolutely loathing every single moment of it…both for the usual reasons (“talent”, blech), and because my parents feverntly believed that I had to do something pianolike. Or get used to hard, painful, fruitless work. Whatever. Well, for many years my teacher was able to blithely ignore the glazed expression on my face, the completely listlessness in my fingers, and the near-suffocating aura of dreariness I took to each and every lesson. One day, however (and I have no idea what sparked this), she said “No. You hate this. You hate being here. I will not teach someone who doesn’t want to learn.” And that was the end of that. Of course, my parents, in their vast wisdom :rolleyes: , promptly decided that I needed a replacement…whatever the freak it was, and the perfect opportunity just happened to show up. Hawaii Boy Scout Troop 75, a bunch of malcontents (and one relatively agreeable guy) who were exactly the sort of people I couldn’t get along with in a thousand years. Yeah, I had an interesting childhood. :mad:

As for #2, that one’s a lot simpler. In one of my jobs, I got a pretty bad cold, but my workplace needed hands and I didn’t think it was serious enough to take sick leave. Sure enough, a friendly co-worker took note of my sneezing and sniffling and proposed an unusual countermeasure…hot tea (“Much better than coffee!”). Before long, I, who had never had a taste for tea before, was happily downing 3 cups a day. At the very least, the hot drink helped clear the snot out, and it may have actually shortened my recovery by a day or two. From then on, while hot tea isn’t my first beverage, I don’t mind it at all. (So long as it’s not bitter. Or too strong.)

A. #2 is the lie. I considered taking Drafting one semester, but (fortunately) both courses were filled. The most I ever took was one noncredit AutoCAD course (which took a little over a month and in a different college). #3 is absolutely true…my mother was pretty adamant about me completing my Bachelor’s. As for #1, my first semester was Fall '92, where I got horrible grades and was put on academic probation, which required me to get a GPA of 2.0 or higher the very next enrolled semester or be expelled. I quit college briefly to look for work after the Spring '94 semester (picking up a second academic probation in the process), found nothing but a lousy paper route, quit it in October of '95, returned to college in Spring '96 (incidentally also the first time I ever learned of and used the World Wide Web), where I was FINALLY put on the right track, taking my first 4-year courses in summer '99 and ultimately picking up my Bachelor’s in December '01…9 years and a semester after my first foray into higher education.

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  1. My hair turned green when I was ten.

  2. I know the Sugar Plum Fairy

  3. I was friends with the son of the man who founded Goodyear.

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My mother attended a college where the gym was named after a member of the family of the Goodyear founder, so I’d like #3 to be true. Since several people have played the Sugar Plum Fairy over the years, #2 seems reasonable enough. I’ll say #1 is the lie because my brother told my mom a similar one – he claimed that I had colored my hair blond for a college play, and that the dye hadn’t washed out, so my appearance would shock some people when I came home for Christmas. I went along with the joke, and my parents were relieved when I stepped off the Greyhound bus, doffed my hat, and revealed that my hair was still its natural shade of brown.

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I’m going to say #2, because #1 is too obvious.